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JEE Main · Chemistry · Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques

Cyclic Compound Naming

JEE Main asked Cyclic Compound Naming 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2024 and 2025. It belongs to IUPAC Nomenclature, in Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques (Chemistry). The longest wait between two years asking it was 1 year.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
2
in 2 shifts
Years
2 of 8
First asked
2024
last in 2025
Pattern
New since 2024
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2024 and 2025. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Chemistry questions.

00.10.20’170’200’210’220’230.05’240.13’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 1 in 18 shifts · 2025: 1 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20251 of 8
  • 20241 of 18
  • 20230 of 12
  • 20220 of 24
  • 20210 of 24
  • 20200 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Single correct is the usual form. Skill tested: application.

  • Iupac name of substituted cycloalkenol
  • Iupac name of substituted cycloalkane

Difficulty

Easy 1Medium 1Hard 0

Every question was multiple choice.

Every question

All 2 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 8 Apr 2025, Shift 2 · Q63What is the correct IUPAC name of [structure: cyclopentene ring with an ethyl group on one ring carbon and an OH group on another] ?MediumSingle correctHas a figure
  2. 27 Jan 2024, Shift 1 · Q70IUPAC name of following compound (P) is :EasySingle correctHas a figure

Shifts: 27 Jan 2024, Shift 1, 8 Apr 2025, Shift 2.

Same topic

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IUPAC Nomenclature has 12 ideas JEE Main has asked; 5 of them came up in more than one question.

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